The sequel to Akamai’s Adaptive Media Player (AMP) will arrive at the beginning of October 2025, with AMP 2 marking the retirement of yet another component of Akamai’s media product portfolio. Instead, CDN and cybersecurity heavyweight Akamai has handed over AMP2 responsibilities to Bitmovin’s Player SDK. Austria-based Bitmovin says it will combine its player, analytics, and Stream Lab (automated testing) technologies with Akamai’s CDN and compute infrastructure to “seamlessly” (the two firms hope) migrate existing AMP 1 customers over to AMP2. The move is designed to expand Akamai’s reach to connected TV devices, smart TVs, games consoles, and set tops—with expanded analytics across all these devices. But scratch beneath the shiny veneer and this is a cost-saving exercise for Akamai,…